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Ireland’s African discrimination shame By Alan Oakley
Research certain to cause parallels to be drawn in Great Britain has revealed that black Africans living in the Republic of Ireland are significantly more likely to be unemployed and face work discrimination than Irish people. Statistics show migrants who arrived in Ireland during the recession are also at greater risk of being discriminated against than their Irish counterparts. The study from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and the Equality Authority also found that in 2010, black Africans were almost seven times more likely than white Irish people to experience discrimination when looking for work, and
almost seven times more likely to be discriminated against while in work. Individuals describing themselves as Black African suffer the highest rates of unemployment and discrimination linked to work. They recorded the highest unemployment rate at 36 per cent and were four times more likely to be out of work than white Irish. The labour force participation was just 60 per cent for black Africans and 65 per cent for non-white Europeans in 2010, while it ranged from 72 per cent to 80 per cent for white Europeans and Asians, many of whom arrived on student visas and could legally work part-time.
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Rotimi Adebari (centre) made history as Ireland’s first Black mayor in 2007, despite arriving as an asylum seeker seven years earlier